The Dimension Travel Trilogy: A Three Part Science Fiction And Fantasy Novel (10 page)

When the brothers were fighting, it was also very hard to understand their fighting was because of the fact that both brothers had Scottish accents. Waldon was a very condescending and rude person to his fellow brother. However, he would never dare to be rude to the king. Finally, as Tom Jackson and Iron Steel arrived at the castle, Waldon asked Tom Jackson, “What brings you here?” Tom said, “I am here to rescue my dragon friend behind me.” Waldon said, “Who is that?”

Tom said to Waldon, “Would you mind holding on for one moment?” Tom Jackson whispered to his friend, “Do you want me to tell the guards your name?” Iron Steel said, “No.” Tom whispered back to his friend, “Okay.” Tom turned around to the guards Waldon and Norman, “His name is Iron Steel.” Now Tom’s dragon friend told him, “What’s wrong with your head? How disobedient can you possibly be? You’re stubborn, spiteful, and obstinate?”

Tom said, “I am sorry.”

Iron Steel said, “Shut up! That is it I

am going to blow fire on you.” Tom said, “Give me mercy!” Steel said, “Hell to the no! You aren’t getting no mercy!” Iron Steel started to try to blow fire on Tom on the guards Waldon and Norman. The two guards used their shields to block the fire. Waldon told Tom, “Is that your friend?”

Tom said with a pretentious expression, “No, in fact, I hate him! I don’t know who he is. I don’t know him at all.” The guards looked him straight in the eye and the second one, Norman asked him, “Are you lying to me? Are you trying to play with my mind and manipulate it? Are you trying to mastermind me and fool me?”

Tom said, “No, what are you talking about?”

Norman said,

“Your Dragon friend. You are allowed here, however, he is not and thus, that’s final!” Iron told Tom, “I will sneak over the castle once you get past those guards and from there, we will meet the king and the wizard and everything will be finished.” After, Iron Steel whispered to his friend about the grand plan, the two guards said, “What are you two talking about?” Tom said, “None of your business.” The guards jumped off of their horses and huddled to each other about letting him in. Norman said, “Listen, he is not a troublemaker. It looks like his friend is going to do no harm. Granted, he is a dragon, but having a pet dragon is quite prevalent within the kingdom. So, what is the big deal about having him here for a brief visit?”

With a look of anger on Waldon’s face, Waldon said, “I am not letting him in and, that’s final!” Even though Norman was the lord according to the General Feudal System, he would always try and be fair and take ideas from the other Vassals or Knights and he would also try to negotiate with the other vassals in order to make peace, especially with his irritating brother. Norman had the authority to send anybody in the dungeon who would try to stand up to him, even his own family. However, his brother thought he had the right also because of familial relationships. But, in this case, Norman didn’t let his egotistical, power hungry brother try and control him like usual.

Norman took matters into his own hands. Norman answered back at his bold and condescending brother, “Who are you to tell me what to do? You sound like a power ravenous pig?”

Waldon looked at his brother in shock and yelled back, “You don’t tell me what to do!” Norman continued the argument by saying, “Well, my feudal ranking is higher than yours. Don’t bother me!

Remember, the king appointed me to make the final decisions! So it is double T’s for you.” Norman brushed off and disregarded what his brother had said and told Tom Jackson, “Okay, you are allowed into the castle. Welcome, to the land of true Magic.”

Tom was jumping up and down constantly, “Thank you so much. Thank you, Thank you Thank You!” And Tom kept repeating, the word thank you until, Norman told him, “Okay, cut it out!”

Norman turned around and looked at the guard tower. Like the rest of the Magic Castle, the guard tower had the same colors as the Magic Castle. The colors of the guard tower were dark purple blocks with an indigo color and a cone that was the color of a black shingled rooftop.

The guard inside the guard tower looked like a six hundred pound husky guy. He looked unkempt and had a beard three quarters of his height. Norman shouted up to the guard, “Open the gate, Heathen!”

Heathen was actually the guard’s name. Heathen grabbed the lever and pulled it down. A crackling of the chain started to take place, and Tom Jackson jumped on the drawbridge of the Magic Castle. Finally, he arrived.

After Tom Jackson had crossed the bridge to get into the Magic Castle, he found a long, narrow alleyway toward the Magic Shop. Meanwhile, Waldon and Norman were fighting, and Iron Steel was livid that he was denied access to the castle. While the two guards were fighting, Iron Steel made a daring move over the guard tower.

Luckily, in Steel’s case, he didn’t get shot with the catapult. The guard hadn’t noticed him. The guard was sleeping with a book stuck to his head. In fact, the guard in the guard tower was sleeping so deep that everyone in the castle was able to hear his snores.

He would be the last person on their minds because the snores sounded like the noises from the swamp. The swamp would make a growling noise on some days, on others it would make a noise that would often sound like snores. There were very few days it wouldn’t make any noise at all. The growling noises were from serpent fish lurking in the swamps. Serpent fish are about three hundred feet long and they have a greenish-black color. The only teeth that they have in their mouths are canine teeth made of serpentine rock, which meant, their teeth could break easily.

That would have been bad for the prey; if their teeth would crack, their prey would have been poisoned due to the serpentine component found in their teeth. These serpents’ colors are greenish black. Their greenish black color was for camouflage in order to remain invisible to the dragon. The serpents can defeat mortal souls except for dragons. The dragons could kill them with just one blow of their flame. The snoring sounds were made by the wind. Due to the fact that there are always so many gusts of winds on the Magic Castle blowing through the turrets and towers, and in the areas that are lying around the Magic Castle, howls and snore-like sounds are often heard.

Sometimes, the guard in the guard tower likes to play some tricks of his own. Since the snores of wind around the castle are constantly being heard, not a single person residing or visiting, will think that it is the guard snoring. Luckily, the guard was never caught snoring, because if he was caught, he would’ve been fed to the serpents down below. After crossing the drawbridge, Tom Jackson started making his way on foot down the corridor of the Magic Castle.

The corridor was about one thousand feet long.

There was an elaborate look to the corridor with attention to detail. In the walls of the corridor, there were carvings that shown the history of the Magic Castle. As the person walked down the corridor the carvings presented the history of the Magic Castle. They portrayed a wizard fleeing the land of Debelinare. Debelinare was a land that demoted wizardry and eventually forbade the act of wizardry.

The wizard portrayed in the carving who fled the land was Donjones which meant in the Debelinarian language, “wicked one.”

While Donjones was fleeing the land of Debelinare, he was stuck in the middle of a marshy and mucky swamp with a bunch of serpents.

Granted, the land was swampy, however, he was able to build the Magic Castle. Along the wall, there were six gargoyles. Now, Tom Jackson was walking down the corridor, completely oblivious to his beastly dragon friend flying over him which suddenly caused Tom to make an abrupt halt.

When Mr. Steel arrived towards his friend, he was breathing heavily, and yelled, “What the hell is wrong with you?” Tom said with trepidation, “Nothing. By the way, your breath smells. What did you have, chili dogs made of serpent crap or did the horse sneeze in your face?” Steel told Jackson, “Is there something wrong with your damn head? I wasn’t even near the horse!”

Tom said, “Let’s just continue.”

As Tom was walking and

Steel was stomping ahead, there were Gargoyles in the hall, and they sang a short sentence-like tune sounding like a barber shop quartet, “Intruder, who are you?”

Now, all of the gargoyles had different faces. Even though all were the same color which was grey, they all had different faces.

There were three on the left side of the hallway, and three on the right side of the hallway. As you would walk down to the end of the corridor, you could see their different faces. The first two facing each other were Smiles, who would always smile and have a face filled with joy and merriment, and Sad Sack, who would have always had bags under his eyes where it appeared that he had never gotten any rest. He was a sad sack because he was attacked by a serpent and the serpent’s attack caused a mutation in his personality. Prior to the serpent’s attack, he was happier than Smiles. In fact, prior to the serpent’s attack, even though he was made of stone, he was strong enough that he would fly off of his post, but that can’t happen anymore. As you would move further down the corridor, there are two more gargoyles, Mr. Superior and Mr. Weakling.

Mr. Superior had hair that was shiny black hair with a wave with a pony tail on the black. Mr. Superior had muscles in his arms, legs, and his face. Even his eye brows had muscles. Ten Feet across from Mr. Superior was the opposite, Mr. Weakling. Weakling had an inferiority complex. Weakling looked like a shriveled up creature.

Weakling didn’t even have a concrete structure. The artisan who created Weakling was probably tired of designing these gargoyles with painstaking attention to detail that they had required.

Then last, at the end of the walkway was Dumb and Dumber.

Instead of looking straight, Dumb and Dumber would be looking to different directions. Dumb was looking to the north side of the castle.

And Dumber would be looking upward thinking that something magical would happen. Granted, this is the Magic Castle, but nothing magical would happen in the sky. After all of the gargoyles had sung their song, “Intruder, who are you?” Tom said, “We are here to see the wizard.” Dumb said, “What wizard is you talking ‘bout?” Dumb sounded like a fool because of the fact that he didn’t have a good education. That is why he turned into a gargoyle. Dumb is from the town, Bulton, which is a serf town outside of the Magic Castle. The serf town is a very poor town. Dumb was a magical creature who would vegetate all day and eat all of the crops of the creatures who were residents of the town. Dumb had aged. He did this for years.

until one of the residents became fed up with the stupidity of Dumb and he was pulled right out of the town of Bulton and sent over to the Magic Castle where he is presently residing.

Now Dumber said, “Wizard? What’s a wizard?”

Smiles said,

“You don’t know what a wizard is? Hey cotton brains, a wizard is a magical creature. A thing disguised as a human, who performs magic on all of you, gives you whatever you want, whenever you need. A wizard is somebody who helps you. A wizard is a person who travels forward and backward, everywhere. A magical wand guides him with the spells. A hocus pocus or an abracadabra makes them real. A spell is just a spell. And a wish is just a wish. But a wish will come to a dragon’s dish and be a mash. A mortal’s wish shall be granted. For the wizard will give thou what thou want and the wizard shall give to thee, the happiness and joy of the world which is in me!”

Smiles had said this visionary statement with a smile. An interesting statement that smiles stated. Smiles as always was smiling and filled with glee. A joyous soul with a heart of gold. That is Smiles. Tom Jackson said, “Now, I would like you to answer the question that I was simply asking, where is the wizard and when is my friend going to be turned into a mortal soul?” Mr. Superior answered, “Okay, let me answer your question.” Mr. Superior sounded very pompous like his usual personality.

Mr. Superior said, “Walk down the hallway and then you will see the wizard.” Tom said, “Okay, thanks!” Tom Jackson started to walk into the building and Iron Steel started to stomp into the building. Iron Steel couldn’t fit himself through the twenty one foot tall and five feet wide gateway to normalcy. A forty foot tall and twenty one foot wide dragon can’t fit in such a small gateway.

Luckily, Tom was able to hear his friend because of the fact that his friend’s head was in the castle.

Iron said, “You better do something to get me out of this situation now! I demand you to do something now!” Tom said, “What could I do?” An audible and explicit voice was able to be heard and the voice sounded like it was coming through the bricks. This voice sounded like a deep voice and the voice said, “What is your name?”

Tom said, “You talkin’ to me?” The audible voice said, “Yes. I am talking to you. Do you think I am talking to the bricks? Of course, I am talking to you? Now, listen, what is your name? Give me your first and last name. Here is a sheet of paper. Write it down now!”

A sheet of paper had gradually dropped down from the ceiling of the first corridor of the Magic Castle. Due to the fact that the ceilings were twenty one feet tall, it took about five minutes for the sheet of paper to fall down from the ceiling. Tom caught the paper and when Tom caught the paper, he asked the audible voice, “Where is the pen to this? I don’t have a pen.” The audible voice gave him a pen.

The pen was a white feather pen. Since the Magic Castle was a castle in a secluded and fantasy area, there would be anachronistic technology. Instead of using normal technology of the contemporary time, the Magic Castle is lost in time. Now, Tom said to the audible voice, “Say, Isn’t this kind of out of date?”

The audible voice said, “No, now write your name!”

Tom

wrote his first and last name on the sheet of paper. When Tom wrote his first and last name, the audible voice told Tom, “Now that you’re done, let me see it.” Tom asked, “How can you possibly see this piece of paper when you are an audible voice in the bricks?” The audible voice answered, “Slide the paper in one of the holes in the bricks. Roll it up and slide it through one of the holes in my bricks.” Tom performed the task that the audible voice commanded. After he performed that task a ball appeared out of one of the bricks and fell on the concrete floor. That ball unfolded into a piece of paper and the paper was a black paper. Then, a pencil had dropped from the ceiling.